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Celebrated Portraits 



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GEORGE 

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Engraved on Steel after Paintings by 

TRUmBULL LATRCTBE, STUA%T, SHA%PLESS, 
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GEORGE WASHINGTON 

Was born February 22, 1732, and died December 14, ,799. All the accom- 
panying portraits were made by artists of his own time, but at differ- 
ent periods. Though apparently differing greatly, the student 
of physiognomy will discover portrayed in each of the 
portraits all the characteristics of this great man. 

JOHN TRUMBULL was a son of Jonathan Trumbull of Connecticut, and 
was born June 6, 1756. He joined the American Army at the outbreak of 
I lie Revokition, and became an aide-de-camp to General Washington. He 
studied painting under Benjamin West. Most of his pictures were of^American 
historical subjects. The accompanying portrait of Washington was painted in 
1788. Trumbull died in New- York at the age of eiglity-seven, and was buried 
at Vale College in a sepulcher designed and built by himself. 

BENJA.\nN HENRY LATROBE was a native of Yorkshire, England. 
He traveled extensively on the Continent, pursuing his art studies. He 
studied architecture and civil engineering in England, and then made the United 
States his home. He was engaged in many public works, including the Capitol 
at Washnigton, the Bank of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, and the Cathedral at 
Baltniiore. He was accomplished in many ways, and was remarkable for his 
facility in the use of pen and pencil. He nevei- left home without his sketch- 
book. This engraving is a copy of a pen-and-ink sketch made liy Latrobe in the 
year 1790, at General Washington's dinner-table, and presented to Col. Morris 
of Revolutionary fame. Washington was then fifty-eight years of age. It was 
regarded by Washington's contemporaries as an accurate'and faithful likeness. 
It IS now in the possession of Col. Benj. .S. Ewell, LL. D., President of WilHam 
and Mary College. Latrobe died in Baltimore, September, 1820. 

G HUBERT STUART was a native of Rhode Island, born in 1756. His 
eai her studies were made in this country, but later he studied in London 
under Benjamin West. He was one of the foremost portrait painters of his day, 
George III., Louis XVI., and many other people of rank, having been amon" his 
■■^'"f,''-^" , ■^'^ 'eturned to the United States in 1 793, and painted three portraits 
of Washington. The first was unsuccessful, and he destroyed it; the second 
which was full length, life size, painted for the Marquis of Lansdowne, is not 
popular ; the tliird, which has been selected for this series, is generally con- 
sidered the best portrait of Washington in existence. It is now in the Boston 
Athenoeum. 

JAMES SHARPLESS was of English birth, educated in France, and came 
to America while young. He devoted himself to portrait painting, both in 
oil and pastel. He excelled in profile drawing. He established his home in 
New-\'ork. but traveled a great deal in his professional work. This portrait 
was painted from life in the year 1796, Washington being then sixty-four years 
of age. The members of his family prized it as a most accurate likeness. 
Sharpless died in New-York in 181 1, at the age of sixty. 

jUI.ES FEVRET DE SAINT MfiMIN was of French birth, but lived in 
j the United States from 1796 to 1810. Like Sharpless, he excelled in profile 
■■ ijortraits. The original sketch of this engraving was made in half life size, in 
l)lack crayon on reddish paper. It was made in Philadelphia in 1798, little 
more than a year l)efore the death of Washington. It was pronounced hv 
I homas Jefferson the most accurate likeness of Washington that had ever been 
made. The original is now in the possession of Mr. James Carson Brcvoort 
of Brooklyn, N. Y. ' 

Copyright, 1883, by Wm. M. Clarke. 



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